Archive for December, 2013

PocketBible 3.0.26 is now available on the App Store. This version adds some minor updates and fixes to earlier releases of PocketBible Version 3.

PocketBible 3 is fully iOS 7 compatible but runs on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices back to version 5.

PocketBible 3 is still free, and for existing PocketBible 2 users it should show up as an available update. If you already own the Advanced Feature Set, it will unlock the Advanced Features of version 3. If you are still using PocketBible 1.4.7, we offer step-by-step instructions to move to PocketBible 3.

PocketBible 3 introduced our new iconography for iOS, which is based on the “Holy Spirit descending like a dove” from the old stained-glass icon from version 2.

What’s New

These features are new to the 3.0.26 update:

View and select from a list of most recent searches

Close books from the titlebar menu

In case you missed our initial announcement, the following features were added with the release of PocketBible 3:

ADVANCED FEATURE SET

The Journal lets you create notes that aren’t associated with any Bible verse. In all other respects they act like notes in PocketBible, including being sync’ed to the Laridian cloud — though they will not yet be visible in versions of PocketBible running on other platforms.

Name your highlight colors to make it easier to remember what your colors mean.

All the previous Advanced Feature Set features from version 2 are present in version 3, and your version 2 Advanced Feature Set will enable the version 3 features without an additional purchase.

STANDARD FEATURES

Autosync allows you to automatically sync changes to your notes, highlights, bookmarks, and other user-created data with the Laridian Cloud without pausing to manually sync as you had to do with version 2. You have the option to require WiFi for autosync in order to avoid data charges. Manual sync is still available, and it runs much faster than the older sync protocol.

Optional Book Position Indicator at the bottom of each book pane shows you how far into the book you are.

Added Pane Options button to the iPad toolbar. Lets you turn on/off tabbed panes and select the number of panes you’re viewing.

Better management of notes, highlights, and bookmarks by being able to delete them from lists using the standard iOS “swipe” gesture. When deleting a category, all the bookmarks in that category are now deleted rather than being moved to “uncategorized” as they were before.

Improved the iPad launch speed for users with lots of notes, highlights, or bookmarks.

A number of small user interface tweaks, including:

Turn off user-created highlights or only highlight verse number rather than entire verse.

Rearranged the Main, Context, and Settings menus to move frequently accessed items to the top and collect similar operations together under task-related headings.

Made the Toolbox Expand, Next Page, and Previous Page buttons smaller to increase the space available for the contents of the Toolbox panels. On the Note View/Edit panels, rearranged the controls at the top to provide more room to view the note.

Added Email Passage and Text Passage to the list of possible “Passage Actions” in the Context menu.

Each guide covers one or more books of the New Testament. Each study uses the popular inductive Bible study method to explore the passage with notes and comments from New Testament Scholar, N.T. Wright. The guides can be used for individual or group study.

In keeping with the inductive Bible study method, each study includes three types of questions: observation questions, which ask about the basic facts in the passage; interpretation questions, which delve into the meaning of the passage; and application questions, which help you discover the implications of the text for growing in Christ. Each study also features selected comments from N.T. Wright’s New Testament For Everyone commentary series. These notes provide further biblical and cultural background and contextual information.

N.T. Wright was formerly Bishop of Durham in the Church of England from 2003 until his retirement in 2010. He is currently research professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

N.T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides each requires PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, PocketBible for Android, PocketBible for Windows Phone, PocketBible for Windows Store, PocketBible for Windows PC or MyBible for Palm OS. Individual volumes are priced at $7.99 to $9.99 each. A bundle of all 19 volumes is available for $124.99 and saves you 25% over purchasing the titles separately.

Please note:Our license agreement with the publisher of this series restricts our distribution to certain areas of the world. We’re not allowed to sell these titles to customers outside of the United States, Canada and Mexico.